Insurance regulation in the United States : an overview for business and government

Author(s)

• Lencsis, Peter M.

Bibliographic Information

Insurance regulation in the United States : an overview for business and government

Peter M. Lencsis

Quorum Books, 1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Insurance attorney Peter Lencsis provides a unique, objective description of the insurance regulatory system as it exists today in the United States. Concise but comprehensive, it provides an easily grasped, immediately useful explanation of how the regulatory system works. Because of the federal McCarran-Ferguson Act, most insurance regulation is left to the individual states, and is thus non-uniform. But there is still a common pattern to state regulation, explains Lencsis, due in large part to the activities of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and its own uniform standards. Lencsis covers the formation and licensing of insurance companies and the regulation of their underwriting and investment activities, as well as the insurance insolvency laws and guaranty funds, assigned risk plans, reinsurance, holding companies, and the regulation of agents and brokers. An important resource for insurance industry professionals, and others in regulatory agencies of the public sector.

Table of Contents

Introduction Historical Background State Versus Federal Insurance Regulation Formation and Organization of Insurers Licensing of Insurers Assets, Reserves, and Investments Annual Statements and Periodic Examinations Rates and Rating Organizations Insurance Contracts Assigned Risk Plans and Other Residual Market Mechanisms Agents, Brokers, and Other Representatives Holding Companies and Corporate Changes Non-Admitted Insurers and Other Risk Management Alternatives Insurer Insolvencies and State Guaranty Funds Reinsurance Trade Practices and Miscellaneous Regulation State and Federal Taxation of Insurers Appendix: McCarran-Ferguson Act Table of Key Statutory Provisions Further Reading Index

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Details

• NCID: BA31186891
• ISBN:
  • 1567200850
• LCCN: 96032507
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 145 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KF1164.3
  • DC20 : 346.73/086
  • DC20 : 347.30686
  • DC21 : 346.73086
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Insurance law -- United States
  • LCSH : Insurance law -- United States.GB9726474